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Originally Posted by Ken Moss
Try to grasp this - occasionally, we all have to admit that there are people out there who know more about certain subjects than we do. I'll freely admit that Graham Jones knows far more about the EU situation than I do.
I'm no great fan of the EU but I'm savvy enough to realise that pulling out is not a swift or painless process.
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I agree(in principle) with much of what you have said, but while we may not be as savvy as someone else(of course there is
always someone who knows more than we do...doesn't mean we can't learn)...if we can recognise that we need more information, then the information is out there.
OK, it won't come and knock on your door...you have to make the effort to look for it....and when you have found it you need to carefully balance the pro's and the con's.
Coming out will
not be an easy task(we should have been offered a referendum long before we were so tied into the organisation - which is purely political, not trade as we were told when we first got sucked in)....but then neither is it impossible. There is a lot of political scaremongering going on, to persuade people to follow the line of least resistance.
In the main, I feel very jaundiced at what most politicians tell me, and am prone to ask myself what they(the politician) has to gain from from what he/she is telling me....and that is a very sad state of affairs and I would suggest it is(in part) why there is so much apathy about voting....we no longer believe that our voices and opinions are heard, and more importantly taken note of/acted on.
Politics seems to be more about smoke and mirrors, and 'spin'(which is a euphemism for lies).